This is an analysis of the poem The Martyr that begins with:
Not only on cross and gibbet,
By sword, and fire, and flood,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba cded faca ebgb gfhf baea bbab bhbX gbbb hifg hjcj kfgf aikg jlXl Xici bmXm gngn moeo gXhc gojoXakfk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011110 1111011 11001110 111101 01010010 1101011 11011010 010111 101001010 1100101 1110001010 1100101 10101110 1100101 11000110 010011 1100110 010101 0101010 101111 0101010 0100101 0101110 010111 101010010 110101 1111110 111101 11001010 011101 11001010 0010100 110010010 011101 11110010 011101 11101110 0101001 11001010 011100 11001110 011101 101011110 100111 10101110 0100101 1100110 010101 0110011 110101 1111110 110100 101001110 100111 11010010 1110110 11001010 01001001 11110110 111101 11110010 011001 11001010 1100101 11110010 110001 01011110 1100101 10101011 011111 1101010 110101 11001010 010100 101001010 111111 0101010 111111 1111110 110011 0111010 111101 11101010 0100100
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, nor, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words for, the, nor, and, o are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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